Matt Vestengen-Cox

A designer at heart, Matt currently shapes the future of AI at Microsoft as part of the core Microsoft 365 Copilot team. Beyond the screen, Matt is a proud immigrant to Norway, a devoted husband, and a doting father. He’s the brain behind oslo.town!

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  • Alternative to…

    Alternative to…

    Sometimes I struggle to know what topics I should be covering on my blog; I’m way more cautious of sharing personal information online than I used to be because the internet felt like it went from a fun place to communicate with people to a dream world for capitalistic vultures to swoop down and feast…

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  • oslo.town blocks threads.net

    oslo.town blocks threads.net

    Since Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) launched Threads as a rival to X/Twitter, there has been a healthy dose of scepticism from the fediverse community about Meta’s intentions, the company’s values and whether Threads joining the fediverse is a good thing or bad thing. oslo.town is based on Mastodon, so it’s…

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  • Most-listened to albums during 2024

    Most-listened to albums during 2024

    In a time where everyone shares their year-in-music as a Spotify Wrapped screenshot on Instagram Stories, only to be glanced through because nobody is really interested, I’ve written this blog post. Besides, I’m not active on Spotify or Instagram. I’m going to presume you are more interested in discovering album recommendations and that will be…

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  • 5 years of oslo.town

    5 years of oslo.town

    As we find ourselves in the midst of November, it’s a poignant reminder that it’s been 5 years since I had the privilege of creating oslo.town – a Mastodon server for the people of Oslo’s capital and the first Norwegian-based Mastodon server to exist. Mastodon is a social network that can be compared to Twitter,…

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  • I bought a Playdate.

    I bought a Playdate.

    On the Eve of Valentines Day, I was sat scrolling Mastodon and a post from the @playdate account popped up on my Home Timeline to announce they had just shipped over 70,000 pre-orders of the console, followed with the news that they expanded the list of countries they ship to by another 20 – including…

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